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The Development of Standardized Patient Controlled Analgesia Documentation to Improve Patient Care
<p>On a 28 bed post-surgical unit, reviewing patient records revealed only 26% had thorough patient controlled analgesia (PCA) documentation. A pre-quiz no staff knew all of the required components for documentation or which policies to reference and, on average, the staff were only able to …
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REMIFENTANIL PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA USE IN LABORING WOMEN: A FEASIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY STUDY
… Interest in remifentanil patient controlled analgesia (RPCA) as a treatment for labor pain has increased due to its unique pharmacodynamics and effectiveness on pain control among parturients. Despite its promise, RPCA remains infrequently used in the US. The purpose of …
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The Effect of Patient-Controlled Analgesia Education for Patients with Laparoscopy-aided Gastrectomy
… management is an important nursing issue for patients’ comfort. In this context, this research aims to analyze the effect of patient- controlled analgesia education on patients’ satisfaction with pain management after operation. It is a nonequivalent control non-synchronized design. The …
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Patient controlled analgesia and the assessment and control of pain in a coronary care unit
… a challenge to nursing and medical staff as patients experience ongoing pain. This study sought to investigate the assessment and treatment of cardiac pain in a coronary care unit (CCU).<br/><br/>Adequate assessment of pain is a fundamental step in its management. Within this study the …
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Impact of Interruption Frequency on Nurses' Performance, Satisfaction, and Cognition During Patient-Controlled Analgesia Use in the Simulated Setting
… medication administration is a significant patient safety concern within health care, especially during the administration of high risk medications in nursing. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) devices are frequently associated with adverse events and have a four-fold increased risk of …
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The Comparison of Ondansetron or Dolasetron on the Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Patients with intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia
… nausea and vomiting (PONV) are common problem in patients undergoing breast surgery and incidence are increased in patients with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia(IV PCA). In this study, we evaluated the effect of ondansetron or dolasetron on the prevention of PONV in patients undergoing …
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Blockchain-enabled Secure and Trusted Personalized Health Record
… records for individuals and offers a consistent patient-controlled information system for managing the health care of patients. Except for the patients in Veterans Affairs health care service, however, no LPHR is available for the general population in the U.S. that can integrate the existing …
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Efficacy of transversus abdominis plane blocks as part of a multimodal analgesia regime for total abdominal hysterectomies
Patients who undergo a total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) experience a significant amount of pain postoperatively. Several multimodal pain regimes have been used in the past to manage these women’s pain. Neuraxial anaesthesia is usually not a feasible option in these cases, because of the risks …
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Vergleichende Untersuchung zweier Verfahren der geburtshilflichen Epiduralanalgesie zur Patientenzufriedenheit unter Berücksichtigung methodenrelevanter anästhesiologischer, geburtshilflicher und organisatorischer Daten
… ein Faktor in dem mehrdimensionalen Prozess der Patientenzufriedenheit. Die Studie vergleicht deshalb den Einfluss zweier Verfahren der geburtshilflichen Epiduralanalgesie auf die mütterliche Zufriedenheit mit dem Geburtserlebnis.METHODE: In einer randomisierten, prospektiven Studie wurden zwölf …
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Intrasąnarinės ir perineurinės analgezijos metodų veiksmingumo nustatymas atliekant artroskopines kelio priekinio kryžminio raiščio rekonstrukcines operacijas /
… intensity, consumption of adjunct analgesics and patient satisfaction during 48 postoperative hours in patients who, in addition to spinal block, received a single-shot femoral nerve block followed by the end-of-surgery intra-articular injection of morphine, neostigmine or placebo. Additionally, …
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Using an Educational Module and Simulation Learning Experience to Improve Medication Safety
… the medication administration process related to patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) usage. Despite extensive in-service training on a Medical/Surgical (Med/Surg) floor in an acute care hospital, inconsistent, inaccurate and incomplete documentation with use of the new PCA pumps continued to be …
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Effekte der Co-Induktion mit Midazolam auf eine total intravenöse Anästhesie mit Propofol und Remifentanil zur Entfernung von drei oder vier Weisheitszähnen in Intubationsnarkose
… decrease in quality of anaesthesia? Methods: 100 patients undergoing general anaesthesia for operative removal of three or four wisdom teeth were randomly divided into two groups (oM, mM). In the oM-group anaesthesia was started with a bolus of 1 µg/kg remifentanil in addition with 1-2 mg/kg …
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A retrospective audit of pain assessment and management post caesarean section at New Somerset Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
… could be identified for the management of patients presenting for CS at regional hospitals in South Africa. This audit aimed to review the folders of patients who underwent CS, with reference to perioperative pain management guidelines for CS. Methods: A descriptive, retrospective, …
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Using silver spike point needle-free electro-acupuncture for postoperative pain management
… pain is affected by many factors including the patient’s age, sex, personality, knowledge of and confidence in the procedure, attitude of the staff, and the individual's physiological condition. The same procedure can produce different degrees of postoperative pain in different patients. Even …
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Patienten-kontrollierte postoperative Ernährung in der elektiven Kolonchirurgie
… clinical observational trial with 40 consecutive patients, undergoing a colonic resection. The goal of this trial was to compare between traditional late-enteral or conventional feeding (CF) after the resolution of postoperative ileus and patient-controlled feeding (PF) including intake of clear …
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Η εντατική περιεγχειρητική αναλγησία μειώνει την ένταση, την επίπτωση και τη συχνότητα του πόνου φάντασμα μετά από ακρωτηριασμό κάτω άκρου : μια προοπτική, τυχαιοποιημένη, διπλή τυφλή κλινική μελέτη
… ενδοφλέβια αναλγησία ελεγχόμενη από τον ασθενή (Patient Controlled Analgesia-PCA), μετεγχειρητικά επισκληρίδιο αναλγησία και επισκηρίδιο αναισθησία; (3) Οι ασθενείς της ομάδας PCA/Επι/PCA έλαβαν περιεγχειρητικά ενδοφλέβια PCA και επισκληρίδιο αναισθησία; (4) Οι ασθενείς της ομάδας PCA/ΓΑ/PCA …
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Evidence-based design for childbirth environments: the impacts of window view and daylight exposure on the health of post-cesarean section women
… environments within healthcare facilities on patients’ health outcomes, both mental and physiological. This research explores the effects of the built environment for childbirth, specifically in terms of daylight exposure and window views, on women’s recovery from post-Cesarean Section. The …
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Titration mit oralem transmukosalem Fentanylcitrat und Morphinsulfat zur Dosisfindung einer Behandlung mit transdermalem Fentanylpflaster
Patients who needed a treatment with opioids of WHO level 3 due to increasing pain were included in this study. We compared oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate (OTCF) with immediate release morphine (IRM) for the dose finding of a transdermal fentanyl (TF) treatment. Up to now commonly morphine …
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Improving pain management for children
… led to the development of more accurate computer-controlled delivery for maintenance of anaesthesia in children down to age 1 year(Morton et al., 1988, Marsh et al., 1990, Morton, 1990a, Marsh et al., 1991, Doyle et al., 1993c, Runcie et al., 1993, Morton, 1998b, Varveris and Morton, 2002). …